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General non-fiction, Archaeology
A wide-ranging account of the development of North American archaeology, with particular emphasis on early man, the Southwest, the American… Indian, and the mound builders. 1971. Uniform title: Der erste Amerikaner.
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Biography, Historical biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern… B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.
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History, Frontier and pioneer life
For 80 years, between 1788 and 1868, England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and… work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters and original sources, Hughes documents this history. 1987.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Frontier and pioneer life
Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime… novel. This book details the evidence that Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. 2015.
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Science and technology, Archaeology
Traces the research scientist co-author's explorations in Greece and the Gobi Desert for the origins of the mythical griffin, relating… the story of the ancient Scythians and the griffins that were said to have guarded their treasure. Grades 2-4. 2015.
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History, Ancient history, Archaeology
When the pharaohs of Egypt died, they were mummified and buried in pyramids and tombs with all their riches. But… as centuries passed, the tombs were looted and the pharaohs' gold stolen. Then Howard Carter found the greatest Egyptian treasure trove of all - the tomb of King Tut's mummy! But did the amazing treasure come with a deadly curse? Grades 2-4. 2007.
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History, Frontier and pioneer life
This is the story of the brave black pioneers who escaped slavery and settled the frontier, even as America headed toward civil war. 2018.
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Christianity, Archaeology
Describes the archeological exploration begun in 1939 in Rome to unearth the lost remains of St. Peter. Details the excavations… under St. Peter's Basilica, the uncovering of the tomb, and the historical and archeological evidence indicating that the discovered bones are those of St. Peter. 1982.
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History, United States history, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature
First-person accounts of Texas cowboys recorded during the late 1930s. They deal with stampedes, bronc busting, and eating chuck wagon food. 1984.
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Science and technology, Archaeology, Dinosaurs
A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth… sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.
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Ancient history, Archaeology
Discusses the human mummies of Egypt and how they were preserved, the discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia and… the mummies of Peru. For junior and senior high readers. 1985.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature
The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as… she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.
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Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10… of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.
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Historical biography, General non-fiction, History, United States history, Frontier and pioneer life
A re-construction of what might have happened, and why, at Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. Tells of Custer and… his command, about the Indians who defeated him, and about such topics as desertion rates in the frontier cavalry. 1984.
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Biography, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill came to Canada with their husbands in the early 1800s. Both women recorded… their experiences as pioneers in the new country in books that would later be held up as early examples of Canadian literature. Here, Gray sheds light on what their lives were like in relation to each other, in relation to their families, and in relation to the harsh environment that surrounded them every day. 1999.
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Canadian non-fiction, History, Ancient history, Science and technology, Archaeology
Four mummies, from a mighty pharaoh to a poor weaver, are studied scientifically to reveal the lives and times of… these three-thousand-year-old people. Also describes embalming and mummification, life in ancient Egypt, and the scientific techniques now used to study mummies. Grades 3-6. 1999.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Archaeology
Traces the lives of American lawyer John Lloyd Stephens and English architect Frederick Catherwood, discoverers of the Maya Civilization. c1973.
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Historical biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and… back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.
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Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, History, Frontier and pioneer life
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history… fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.
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History, Frontier and pioneer life
What was it like to be a passenger on the Mayflower? How many people survived the first harsh winter in… the New World? How did Pilgrim children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this 'Magic Tree House' Research Guide, which includes fun facts from Jack and Annie. Grades 2-4. 2005.